| Contents | The William and Mary Quarterly, LXV.4

Vol. LXV, No. 4

October 2008


Staff


Tom Paine's Common Sense and Ours
Sophia Rosenfeld	633

A Genre of Their Own: Kiliaen van Rensselaer as Guide to the Reading and Writing Practices of Early Modern Businessmen
Donna Merwick	669

Culture and Governance: Reflections on the Cultural History of Eighteenth-Century British America
Michael Meranze	713

Go West: Mapping Early American Historiography
Claudio Saunt	745

Sources and Interpretations


The French Intrigue of James Cole Mountflorence
Wesley J. Campbell	779


The author's transcription of the original source is available online

Reviews of Books


Loughran, The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770–1870. By Phillip H. Round	797

"The Scottish Atlantic," a review essay of Hamilton, Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750–1820; Breslaw, Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Provincial America: Expanding the Orbit of Scottish Culture; Szasz, Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World; and Vann, In Search of Ulster-Scots Land: The Birth and Geotheological Imagings of a Transatlantic People, 1603–1703. By Jose R. Torre	801

MacMillan, Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: The Legal Foundations of Empire, 1576–1640. By Alexander Haskell	814

Anderson, Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America. By Geoffrey Plank	818

Kidd, The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America. By Mark Valeri	821

Shaffer, Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater; and Butler, Votaries of Apollo: The St. Cecilia Society and the Patronage of Concert Music in Charleston, South Carolina, 1766–1820. By Peter P. Reed	824

McDonnell, The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia. By Steve Rosswurm	827

Kamoie, Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700–1860. By Marc Egnal	830

Koschnik, "Let a Common Interest Bind Us Together": Associations, Partisanship, and Culture in Philadelphia, 1775–1840. By Birte Pfleger	833

Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution. By Todd Estes	836

Sidbury, Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic. By Jeffrey A. Fortin	839


Communications	843

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